Nghe An: Promoting IT application to better serve people and businesses

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of July 6, the Ministry of Information and Communications delegation led by Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung - Head of the Executive Board deployed the application of IT in the activities of State agencies.have a working session withNghe An Provincial People's Committee on this issue,

Attending the meeting, on behalf of Nghe An province, there were comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Steering Committee for IT Application; representatives of relevant departments, branches and units.

Overview of the working session.

In recent times, Nghe An has achieved a number of achievements in applying Information Technology (IT) in the operations of state agencies such as infrastructure, human resources, organization of management apparatus, deployment, and application of IT to serve people, businesses and at the one-stop department.

In addition, the province also applies IT in direction, administration, production, business, life and internally, notably the core software of HCM e-Government Egov Framework 2.0.

The Provincial People's Committee has completed the draft Plan for IT application in State agencies of Nghe An province for the period 2016 - 2020 and is submitting it to the Ministry of Information and Communications for appraisal.

Accordingly, in 2016, 40% of online public services at provincial, district and commune levels were provided at levels 3 and 4 at 11 provincial departments and branches for a number of popular public services that are closely related to people and businesses.

Nghe An Department of Information and Communications chaired the organization of a computer incident response drill. Photo: Thuc Anh

Regarding the orientation of IT application in the coming period, Nghe An focuses on effectively implementing the Project to build Nghe An e-Government; building online public services at levels 3 and 4 of departments, branches, sectors and districts.

Establishing the province's online public service portal, connecting to the national public service portal, etc. closely combined with the task of administrative reform, encouraging and supporting people to access and effectively use online public services. At the same time, developing IT infrastructure and IT human resources.

Nghe An province requests the Ministry of Information and Communications, relevant ministries and central branches to continue to pay attention to directing the attraction of investment resources for IT development, soon turning Nghe An into the IT - Communication Center of the North Central region; Successfully building e-government of Nghe An province.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung - Head of the Executive Board for IT application deployment spoke at the meeting.

After 2 working days at a number of units in Nghe An, the delegation of the Ministry of Information and Communications highly appreciated the application of IT in Nghe An in various fields; at the same time, proposed a number of contents such as: continuing to give strong direction in 2 fields: helping people with disabilities access information and communication technology services; linking the application of IT with the electronic ISO quality management system; enhancing the application of digital signatures.

The representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications suggested that the province should quickly develop a plan for IT application and submit it to the Ministry; have strong direction in the current use of email. At the one-stop department, it is necessary to apply the connection and circulation of documents between units in the province.

Youth Union members are the leading force in applying IT. Photo: Document.

Speaking at the meeting, comrade Le Ngoc Hoa thanked the working delegation of the Ministry of Information and Communications for inspecting and evaluating the IT application situation of Nghe An province; affirmed that the province will absorb the delegation's comments and suggestions to adjust and perfect the IT application.

In particular, the province focuses on building infrastructure, training IT human resources, applying superior management software to agencies and units in the province, especially HCM Egov Framework 2.0 software;... with the motto of considering people and businesses as the subjects of service of the province's IT application. At the same time, it requests the Ministry of Information and Communications to support the work of ensuring network security.

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting.

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Thanh Hung acknowledged Nghe An's efforts in applying IT. Regarding Nghe An's recommendations, the Ministry of Information and Communications will submit to the Government for resolution and conclusion of some contents of the inspection team regarding IT application in Nghe An.

In particular, he suggested that Nghe An province thoroughly grasp the need to closely link administrative reform with IT application; synchronize IT application and information security; continue to pay attention to improving the quality of cadres and civil servants.

At the same time, strengthen the role of IT specialists; promptly issue documents guiding the application of IT; strengthen the official mail system as well as the use of the official email system; increase the exchange of electronic documents to complete the 4-level connection, providing level 3 and 4 public services to people and businesses.

Hoai Thu